Are Germans ruder than the British? Are Britons more dishonest than Germans? Fortunately, we don't have to rely on blind prejudice for answers. Serious academic research has been done on both sides of the North Sea.
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Professor Juliane House, of the University of Hamburg, has studied groups of people interacting in controlled situations, watching with academic rigour how they behave as human guinea-pigs.

Some might say the French. Which puts Parisians in a class all of their own.
Norwegians can seem quite rude. Alot of what they say is based more upon, not what they say but how they say it.

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To be rude you actually have to say something. I noticed that most Nores didn't seem to say a lot and just stood there quietly.
Norwegian women tend to become VERY friendly when you offer them beer and cigarettes though!